Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-25
OF TEE WEEK.

MI. O'Brien visited Ottawa ant
addressed large audiences, but at Kingston
on Friday, he came near losing ibis life a
the hands Of an Orange mob, and would
have heen killed but for a fortunate ex
change eof hats so that his Identity wa.
lost. The police pretending to keep order
allowed tie mob to do as it pleased. Al
Irish Catholic newspaper office Was sackes
and naany.acts Of violence committed anc
a number1ujured. After the attompt tc
murdereO'R rien had been frustrated, the
Mayor appeared and rendered O'Brien pro
lection, and bitterly reproached by that
gentleman aad his friends for his hypocrisy
in allowing the mob to make the brutal
assault ,wheI a word from the Mayor
would have stepped it. 4~@. -as
The firm of:Swan Bros, of Cheyenne
the leading cattle dealers ofWyoming made
an assignment q the 10Th, with liabilities
of $l,1OOa,NOO, and assets nominally the
same, The cause sor the assignment is
primarily due to the action of q DayeH.
port, Iowa, bank, bringing suit on a note
signed by one of tho firm as surety and
this caused direct CREDITORS to press other
claims, none Of them past due however.
pay, in full, their invoice of bonds, stocks,
lands and v stock amounting to 81, 225, COO.
The Board of Trustees of the State
university, with a view OF increasing the
popularity and strength of that institution
in Ohio, are about to secure the services of
ex-PreSident R. b. Hayes of Fremont, as
President. He will take charge of the uni
versity at the opening of the fall term in
September. Mr.. Hayes is a graduate Of
Kenyon and Harvard colleges, aud is in
every way admirably qualified for the posi-
ton of President of the leading institution
of learning in Ohio. The salary is $1,000 q
year.
The town of Lake Linden, Houghton
County, Mich, population 2,50o was de-
slroyea By fire May 80, with a loss estima-
ted at a million and a half dollars, go build
school houses and dwellings,. 300 families
lost everything. The fire took from forest
fires and buildings being all Of wood burned
SO rapidly hat in two hours the destruction
was complete, only q meat market and sa-
loon building remaining in the business por-
ton. &
The legislature of Florida has elected
William Pasco United States Senator as
the successor of Mr.. Jones. Mr.. Pasco. is a
native of London, England, and is about
forty-eight years old. He is an American
citizen through the naturalization of his
father before he attained his majority. He
is q graduate of Harvard college. He served
in the Confederate army. He is now speaker
OF the state house of representatives.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, John Boyd,
a butcher of Rockford, last summer muir
dered W. B. johnson. Boyd was half
crazed with liquor at the time. He was
sentenced to prison for life. Annie Boyd
his wife, sued Christopher Post, a saloonist
Of Rockford, for selling her husband liquor
claiming 5000 damages. A verdict was
rendered giving $3.50.
The business failures during the last
seven days number for the United States
1856, for Canada 50, total 167, against 1872 last
week and 176 the corresponding week last
year. Failures are decreasing in ali parts
Of the country, except perhaps Canada and
the provinces.
EESu1or O'Brien has been invited by
Moses W. Field, chairman on behalf of the
central committee of the Greenback Labor
party of Michigan, to visit Detroit for a pub
lie address The state legislature is to be
vitatioA.
E1-Gov. William Smith who, for up
wards Of 60 years has been Unidentified with
the affairs of Virginia as a lawyer, legisla-
tor, congressman and governor, serving sew
eral years in the United States congress and
two terms as governor Of the State, Is dead.
The $4,000 monument erected to
Schuyler Colfax at Indianapolis, Ind, by
the Daughters of Rebekah was unveiled on
the 18th, and dedicated with appropriate
ceremonies, participated in BY many
thousand people. a.
Near Sadalia, Colorado, the sleeping
car, of the Denver, Rio Grande & Salt
| Lake City Express was derailed and Grace
| Leslie, the leading lady ofthe Kate Castletor
company was Killed, her spinal column
being broken, as she fell upon q ledge OF
| rocks. ..-:<% - a. ~ a t
A plan is on foot OF Lima, O., t.
organize a producers oil exchange to op
pose the Standard Oil Company. The
| plans have not yet been perfected, but
many of the leading oil men in the Lima
fields are interested. . , II .va.<- ~
The reports from the forest fire ii
the upper Michigan peninsula record a los
exceeding s ,OOO.0 900, in the last two weeks
including the Lake Linden fire.
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